February 2021 Tasmania’s 10 Year Infrastructure Pipeline Infrastructure Tasmania i Contents Contents ............................................................................................................................................................. i Minister’s message ............................................................................................................................................ ii 1. About the Pipeline ......................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 What is included in the Pipeline? ................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Purpose of the Pipeline .................................................................................................................................. 2 2. Infrastructure in the context of COVID-19 ....................................................................................................... 3 3. Analysis of Pipeline trends ............................................................................................................................. 5 3.1 Timing of spend by asset class ........................................................................................................................ 5 3.2 Project driver analysis ..................................................................................................................................... 6 3.3 Infrastructure class analysis ............................................................................................................................ 7 3.3.1 Roads ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 3.3.2 Energy ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 3.3.3 Agriculture, water, sewerage, irrigation and stormwater ...................................................................... 9 3.3.4 Airports ................................................................................................................................................... 9 3.3.5 Ports ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 3.3.6 Rail ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 3.3.7 Communications ................................................................................................................................... 10 3.3.8 Housing ................................................................................................................................................. 11 3.3.9 Health ................................................................................................................................................... 11 3.3.10 Education .............................................................................................................................................. 11 3.3.11 Justice and public safety ....................................................................................................................... 11 3.3.12 Recreation and visitor ........................................................................................................................... 11 3.4 Regional spend analysis ................................................................................................................................ 12 3.5 Local government infrastructure spend ....................................................................................................... 12 4. Private sector interface with the Pipeline ..................................................................................................... 14 5. Government sector horizon projects ............................................................................................................. 17 6. Pipeline projects .......................................................................................................................................... 18 Appendix A: Economic and social infrastructure asset owners in Tasmania........................................................ 38 Appendix B: Glossary ....................................................................................................................................... 39 Appendix C: Caveats ........................................................................................................................................ 40 i Minister’s message The 2020-21 update to Tasmania’s 10 Year Infrastructure Pipeline comes at an unprecedented time in our history, with the COVID-19 pandemic having had a significant impact on communities and economies around the world. The Gutwein Liberal Government is rolling out a landmark $5 billion infrastructure program over four years, the largest investment to ever be announced by a Tasmanian Government. This investment forms a central component of Tasmania’s COVID-19 recovery, with record levels of investment in our essential services of education and training, health, housing as well as in roads. It will support jobs and the economy and build intergenerational infrastructure for the Tasmanian community. The Tasmanian Government welcomes the Australian Government’s $401 million investment in our roads and infrastructure as part of the 2020-21 Federal Budget. This investment will help us continue to deliver our plan to rebuild a stronger Tasmania. While the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is focused on stimulating the economy with shovel-ready projects over the next two years, the Infrastructure Pipeline demonstrates that there is a strong pipeline of infrastructure investment over the next decade which will continue to support and stimulate the Tasmanian economy well into the future. To assist the delivery of this massive infrastructure program, we have enhanced the role and function of Infrastructure Tasmania (ITas). ITas will now have an expanded role in the strategy, policy and planning of infrastructure across government, and an expanded role in priority project delivery. It will also have a new role in enhanced capital delivery capacity and monitoring, including offering a new service in project assurance. A state-wide skills roundtable was also established as part of the stimulus package with a view to ensuring the skills and training exists to deliver the significant infrastructure and building boost. The 2020-21 pipeline is a little later than usual, owing to the later State Budget. By publishing the Pipeline now, we are ensuring that the construction industry has long-term visibility of those contracts that are planned to be brought to the market in the medium to long term. This in turn helps to grow business confidence and create jobs to grow our economy. These are challenging times, and our focus on investing in infrastructure will play both a key role in the recovery process and also provide lasting benefits for the Tasmanian community to enjoy. Michael Ferguson MP Minister for State Growth Minister for Infrastructure and Transport ii 1. About the Pipeline This section provides an overview of what is included in Tasmania’s 10 Year Infrastructure Pipeline (the Pipeline) and its intended purpose. 1.1 What is included in the Pipeline? The Pipeline brings together details of planned public investment across all economic and social infrastructure classes covering the period 2020-21 to 2029-30. Data for the Pipeline has been sought from asset owners, including Tasmanian government agencies, government businesses, relevant statutory authorities, local government and selected private sector organisations (see Appendix A for a list of Tasmania’s economic and social infrastructure asset owners). Asset owners were asked to provide both their total annual capital expenditure over the next 10 years as well as a list of all project proposals that meet the following criteria: • they are planned to occur between 2020-21 and 2029-30 • they are highly likely in that they are funded or partially funded • they are significant in cost (indicatively greater than $5 million), or part of a program of projects that collectively meet this threshold. The estimated value of the projects shown in the Pipeline are in nominal 2020 dollars. An analysis of the Pipeline trends based on this information is set out in Section 3, while the full list of Pipeline projects that meet the criteria outlined above is set out in Section 6. Section 3.5 contains an analysis of local government expenditure at a ‘global’ level together with a selection of ‘major’ local government infrastructure projects that were submitted to ITas. This recognises that local government plays an important role in the delivery of significant infrastructure across Tasmania. Given that many private sector construction projects also draw on the same local suppliers and industries as the infrastructure projects captured in the Pipeline, a list of key private sector projects has been included in Section 4. This list cannot always be comprehensive as private developer intentions are often confidential. Finally, a list of public sector horizon projects, that are not yet certain in terms of timing and/or funding, but which